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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
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I have a small script I have written that does some pattern matching. I would like to pass this as an argument to the script. The script works perfectly hard coded with the pattern matching, I receive errors when passing as an argument due to what I believe is the "\ | [ ] etc" , so how could I pass this stuff as an argument so it just takes it as a string? I have the argument defined as a string in the script.

theNbomr thank you for the response.Sorry for the late reply, internet went down for awhile here today. I figured it out, was a few odd little details I had askew. Here is the final result that works as it should. This is a plugin for Nagios if anyone was wondering. Allows regular expressions to be passed and used for whatever you would like.